Friday, March 19, 2010

Memory Lane Friday - The Best Toy You Wanted but Never Got

I wasn't much of a kid for dolls. I prefered plastic animals. I had a dollhouse, but used my plastic animals in the dollhouse. But then one year it happened. Baby Alive was released, just prior to Christmas. Oh how I wanted Baby Alive. She came with different flavored powdered food packets that you mixed with water - cherry, lime, and strawberry for feeding. After moving a lever in her back, she'd swallow the food, and it would come out the other end. What could be more intriguing than a doll that PEED and POOPED?!?

Alas, I wasn't the only kid that wanted a Baby Alive that year, because there wasn't one to be found anywhere when Christmas rolled around.

Instead, I got a doll that cried and drank bottles. The crying was pretty good. But I sure was bummed there would be no mixing of baby food and diaper changing going on.

Second place for the toy I always wanted but never got would be Milky the Cow, who drank from her trough and then you could actually milk her.

Hmmm. I guess I had a thing for bodily functions.

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For me, it was the Pebbles Flintstone doll I never got. My sister got one from her Godmother and I was sooo jealous. (Shhh...I never told anyone that!)But I'd have given up a hundred Pebbles dolls to have one Milky the Cow. That is hilarous! I never even heard of that toy. PS--I loved my dollies, but my favorite toy of all time was a "Mad Scientist Chemistry Set." Yeah, I was a nerd back in the 60s!